Our Supporters
Anand
Anand has been our sincere supporter, be it in terms of funds or in terms of his sincere attempts to help others in every way possible. He is a Animal Lover and without doubt a People Lover too. His help has made Jnana Jyothi Tamil Kannada Primary School repairs possible. And now the community Reading Room in Pillaganahalli and more.
Rekha
Rekha's help has helped us in our very early stages and has helped serve little ones in Jeedimara Slum. Her interest in our Reading Room projects has helped us in Jeedimara Slum (Ongoing) and Pillaganahalli and more. She is a active contributor of the community with the only restriction being the distance she has been placed in, which has separated her from these under priviledged communities. An active contributor, we really appreciate her family's continued support.
Yesvin
A wonderful designer, he has donated to us our beautiful logo. He has given us all our design related advice in the past and now. We are extremely happy to have him among us, especially at at a time when we have started with no funds at all. He has conveyed every object we put on our paper, magically in his design. Our sincere thanks to him on that..
Vidhya
An extraordinary social worker herself. She has given us what we are in dire need of - Her presence and her time. She is our active companion when it comes to Story Telling Sessions we do to keep the community bonding alive and to convey to children their rights and their grievance mechanisms. She has been a committed tutor for our NIOS (Open School) youth (domestic worker) and a self-less contributor to the society. Hats off to her and we are sure she will do a lot more.
Manjunath
We can never forget Manjunath for the timely help he has extended in the past when the Austin Town Tamil Primary School came to us seeking help with funds towards ferrying Tamil children to their school until permanent arrangements were made. This was long long before we registered and we are very thankful for such timely help.
Gopi
Can there be a better donation than donating a book? Gopi has contributed through donating books to youth in distress in an attempt to develop skills and train themselves. Such an attempt is worth applauding than anything else.
Melvin
Melvin's contribution towards sponsoring the higher education of our domestic worker's children is not common. Cheers to his compassion and commitment towards educating another underprivileged in the society. It is because of people like him, that we still have some hope left.
Jawahar
Jawahar's contribution towards sponsoring the higher education of our domestic worker's children is not common. Cheers to his compassion and commitment towards educating another underprivileged in the society. Not only in matters of education, in matters of injustice too, they give us a hand and their time in raising our voices for the oppressed community.
Vimal
Vimal's contribution has helped us by sponsoring the higher education of our domestic worker's children and in Transport backup for the Austin Town Tamil Primary School in the past. He is a techie and helps us with the technical stuff, web related stuff during his free time. We are happy to have such volunteer technical team amidst us.
Ishwarya
Ishwarya's contribution towards sponsoring the higher education of our children is not common. Cheers to her compassion and commitment towards educating another underprivileged in the society. Not only in matters of education, in matters of injustice too, she has been a friend giving us a hand and her time in raising our voices for the oppressed community.
Hatim, Ranee, Deena, Preethi, Pavithra and Vidya are helping us in big ways with the funds from their apartment's old newspapers. How old newspapers could change a school is worth mentioning. They have steadily come out to help their neighbouring communities. And without their help this neighbourhood approach of Payanmaram would not have existed.
Our Team
Mohan Raj K
Responsible for the establishment of our first community reading room for children in his community, Mohan is committed to improve the living and education in his community. A well known philanthropist in his community, he believes in cheerfully overcoming the challenges faced in the community despite the sad realities faced by the marginalized.
Suyambu
Responsible for our financial matters, armed with many, many years of experience in Financials in the Textile Industry and more, our financial matters have been made easily possible with his intervention and experience. Not only financially, but his rich experiences with unions and wage workers, its related affairs have been a great value add to us and our ideas of current needs as a social service organisation. A former Chief Finance Officer, currently he is our mentor and Treasurer now..
Janaki
Responsible for our maintenance of records. She gives us a hand in computerizing our finances and other necessary matters. Experience of this retired Government servant has been a great value add to our think tank.
Aravind
A regular financial contributor and Advisor, to stand against corruption and privatization top his agenda. He contributes space to run our office free of cost and has been a consistent supporter to all our endeavours.
Vidyasakaran
A regular contributor and saviour in times of dire need, Vidyasakaran is a great advisor and helps our understanding of the current affairs. His deep passion for literature and extensive reading is a great advantage and helps us make better decisions. He is also a shy but great artist and a very good negotiator and speaker and is always there to bail us out when we are in trouble.
Priya
A sincere, hard worker and committed friend who has always been around to tell us the ups and downs in our reading room affairs and advice appropriately. Her age does not match her experience and her experience is a great saviour to us most times. From Child labourer to Baby Sitter to Day Care CareTaker/Teacher to Cook, to street vending business, her roles are too many to mention just one.
Veena
A regular contributor, Advisor and great moral support, Veena helps better our decisions on various communication and outreach strategies. A regular financial support in times of crisis, she has been a valuable and not so visible member of the organization.
Indu Priya
A regular contributor, and fieldworker with primary focus on children. I believe in looking around me for irregularities and do what is possible in my capacity to bring it to the notice of the administration, the elected representatives and people for resolution. I try to be an equal in this unequal society. I am writing this, so... not sure what more to say!:P